Frances Elaine McElheney was born in the small town of Thomas, Oklahoma on February 26, 1941 to Roy Huckins and Sue (Massey) Huckins. Her mom, Sue passed away when Elaine was 16 years old. After her mother’s death, her father married Helen Roach. Elaine grew up and graduated from her hometown high school. After graduation, she moved to Dallas where she met Walter Louie McElheney, who had also just moved to Dallas from Florida. They fell in love and then married on June 18, 1960. They had three boys, Walter, Tim, and Billy. At the time of her husband’s death in 2000, they had been married just over 40 years.
Elaine passed peacefully on September 20, 2022.
She was preceded in death by her mother, her father, her stepmother, and her husband. She is survived by her sons, Walter, Tim, and Billy; her daughters-in-law, Kristi and Tonya; her grandchildren, Ryan and his wife Kaitlyn, Joel, Wesley, Mariah and her husband Colton, and Becka and her husband Isaac; and her great-grandson, Greyson.
Elaine worked in the Dallas Independent School District for over 20 years as a behind-the-wheel Driver’s Ed Instructor. For many years she volunteered at Heaven’s Attic, a part of Manna House, to serve the families in Midlothian, the town where she and her family resided. If you know her, you know that she loved people, she loved to laugh, she loved to eat, she loved yellow roses, she loved anything shiny or blingy, she loved a good bargain, she loved her family, and she loved Jesus.
Her services will be on September 27 at Oak Crest Baptist Church, 1701 S. Fifth Street, Midlothian, Texas. Visitation at 1 p.m.; Service at 2:30 p.m.
If you prefer to make a donation to a charity in lieu of flowers, she would have loved that donation to go to Manna House in Midlothian, Texas. https://mannahouseoutreach.org/donate/
Fond memories and expressions of sympathy may be shared at www.laurellanddallas.com for the McElheney family.
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